Websites: "Verify you're a human... No, try again... No, try again... You must verify you're a real person."

The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be an attractive human but is in fact a bot"

If you're interested in helping out an #OpenSource project and use a desktop OS, try out these OS native window tabbing options and let us know whether they're fun to use and work with Agregore.

https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/issues/243#issuecomment-3254758148

"Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence

https://edri.org/our-work/meta-and-x-are-going-rogue-here-is-what-europe-should-do-now

#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #twitter #fediverse #politics #europe

This is your reminder to make sure you have a password manager, different passwords for different accounts, and have MFA enabled!

A hacker just leaked 10 billion passwords. Here’s what to do now

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2387530/hacker-leaked-10-billion-passwords-heres-what-to-do.html

#Hacker #Leak #Passwords #Security #InfoSec #Tech

Is it weird to think that wind turbines are unironically cool and maybe even pretty?

They're an engineering work of art, the fact we can make small straight tubes stick 150M up into the sky and hold onto a multi-megawatt dynamo and propeller even in heavy storms, is super neat to me, and standing next to one and looking up inspires a strange awe; to think we can build something like that in a consistent and safe way is absurd, seeing those giant slabs of metal surf around at 100s of km/h is 🤯